Youtube & Tibet

Since all of Youtube is currently blocked in China, I wondered if Youtube might start tagging videos of the protests in Tibet in order to have Youtube unblocked with the specific videos being blocked for users in China. But after running a few (definitely not comprehensive) Tibet related search terms all I found so far was that it appears that BBC videos are blocked for users in Great Britain:

2 comments.

Nart,
I’ve recently noticed that videos of these riots which are available on YouTube from outside the Chinese firewall are replaced by a message, generated by YouTube, which reads “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”. For example, see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfnBVKrzX6Y.

I did my test with a couple of proxy servers within China on June the 1st. It is possible that YouTube is not blocking this video (and others like it) but that the firewall, while letting this page through its filters, is blocking the video feed into the page.

Something to investigate? I might very well be wrong about all this. Hell, I probably am!